{"id":505328,"date":"2026-06-22T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:25:11","slug":"welcome-to-the-jungle-cleared-by-cbfc-after-18-cuts-and-modifications-list-includes-bikini-scenes-kashmir-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505328\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Jungle cleared by CBFC after 18 cuts and modifications; list includes bikini scenes, Kashmir reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahmed Khan\u2019s Welcome to the Jungle, the third film in the Welcome franchise, will hit screens on June 26. Ahead of that, the Central Board of Film Certification has certified the film for release, but only after 18 cuts and modifications were carried out. The list of changes for the Akshay Kumar<\/a>-starrer included bikini scenes, a reference to Kashmir, hand gestures and more.<\/p>\n

\"AkshayAkshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Raveena Tandon and others star in Welcome to the Jungle.Welcome to the Jungle certified UA 16+<\/p>\n

According to the CBFC, Welcome to the Jungle <\/a>has been censored UA 16+ with a runtime of 164.50 minutes (2 hours 44 minutes). Summary to the film that was certified on June 20 reads: \u201cIn the madcap world of Welcome, where chaos is always just one bad idea away, comes its wildest chapter yet\u2014Welcome to the Jungle. A billionaire, looking to fake losses, hatches a ridiculous plan\u2014to make a film that\u2019s guaranteed to fail. For the job, he assembles the most unreliable crew imaginable: a fading superstar, a clueless director duo.\u201d<\/p>\n

List of 18 cuts and modifications by the CBFC<\/p>\n

The certificate, reported by Variety India, shows that 18 cuts, modifications and inclusions were made before Welcome to the Jungle was cleared for release. Some dialogues from the film were either deleted or modified.<\/p>\n

The replaced dialogues include, \u201cKala paida hua hai\u2026koayla hai (He was born dark like coal),\u201d which was modified to, \u201cSaadah paida hua\u2026namoona hua hai (He was born a simpleton).\u201d \u201cYaas karo kurbani muh me bhar lo paani (Remember the sacrifice and fill your mouth with water),\u201d was changed to, \u201csuno sunata hoon kahani, jo shaheed honey jaa raha tha, uske muh mien bharlo paan (Listen to my tale, paan in the mouth of those who were about to sacrifice themselves).\u201d A dialogue which goes \u201cDesh ki tatti (The country\u2019s poop),\u201d was also changed, as was \u2018Ejjat le lo (Take away my dignity).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNa Diya\u201d and \u201cPanni of Kashmir\u201d were deleted, as was the word \u2018screwed\u2019 from subtitles. \u2018Azarudden\u2019 was changed to \u2018Allaudin\u2019, \u2018andha\u2019 (blind) was replaced with \u2018dheela\u2019 (loose), \u2018Gorkha Regiment\u2019 was changed to \u201cTum army se ho? (Are you from the army?),\u201d and \u2018General\u2019 was replaced with \u2018officer\u2019 or \u2018sir\u2019.<\/p>\n

CBFC also deleted \u2018sensual\u2019 bikini visuals and body movements. It also categorised visuals featuring Disha and Jacqueline as \u2018sensual\u2019 while removing them; close-ups of women\u2019s hips, hip movements in a song, and \u2018vulgar\u2019 hand gestures were replaced with a close-up of Vindu Dara Singh. The total deletions amounted to 10 seconds.<\/p>\n

About Welcome to the Jungle<\/p>\n

Welcome to the Jungle is directed by Ahmed Khan, written by Neeraj Vora, and produced by Firoz Nadiadwala, Rakesh Dang, and Vedant Vikaas Baali under Base Industries Group, Cape of Good Films and Seeta Films. The film stars an ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Disha Patani<\/a>, Jacqueline Fernandez<\/a>, Raveena Tandon, Lara Dutta, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Aftab Shivdasani, Jackie Shroff and Paresh Rawal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmed Khan\u2019s Welcome to the Jungle, the third film in the Welcome franchise, will hit screens on June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15530,232308,69346,146,85,46,112850,397,58336],"class_list":["post-505328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-akshay-kumar","tag-cbfc-cuts-list","tag-disha-patani","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jacqueline-fernandez","tag-movies","tag-welcome-to-the-jungle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}